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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT availablity
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Date: 16 Jan 90 18:28:43 GMT
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In article <25628@brunix.UUCP> rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) writes:
>Well, ok...its time for *this* discussion again.
>
>Does anyone have a semi-firm date on the US release of the TT? It
>
> - Rob DeMillo			| Internet: rjd@brown.cs.edu     

On December 27th, I posted an article about the "show and deliver"
policy of Atari's:  New products will be shipped within 90 days of
an announcement.  At least, this is what i understand Atari's "new"
policy to be.  I gather the Dusseldorf "show" of August 25th 1989 was
NOT an announcement, as there are zero TT's being shipped to dealers
in Europe.  I did get personal mail from an inside Atari engineer
saying that the Dusseldorf "announcement" stated a 1st quarter '90 
release.  We've still got 8 weeks or so before the end of the quarter.
However, the very same engineer made it perfectly clear that the TT was
still being designed.  Furthermore, if one calls Atari Developer's 
support, one discovers that the TT developer's kit is unavailable.
This all leads to very interesting and disappointing conclusions.

A friend of mine is visitng for a week to finish up a development
project we are working on together.  He brought his Mac SE/30.  
Very nice..  hmmm... and seeing how cheap these things are getting..
hmm..

-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu